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· .. rather excessive, and certain people hecame uneasy on learning that thieves
were shot on the spot. Under such a regime they said to themselves, who could be
sure of his own life in the end?" Heinrich Heine, '''Die Fehl'uarl'evolution,"
Slimtliche Werke, ed. Wilhelm BiHsche (Leipzig), voL 5, l" 363.17 [aI4a,2]
America in the Hegelian philosophy: "Hegel . .. did not give direct expression to
this consciousness of terminating an epoch of history; rathel', he gave it indirect
expression. He makes it known by the fact that, in thinking, he casts an eye over
the past in 'its obsolescence of spirit, even as he looks ahout for a possible discovery
in thc domain of spirit, all the while exprcssly reserving the awareness of such
discovery. The rare indications concerning America-which at this period seemed
the future land of liberty [note: A. Ruge, Aus friiherer Zeit, vol. 4" pp. 72-84.
Fichte had already thought of emigrating to America at the time of the collapse of
old Europe (letter to his wife of May 28, 1807). ]-and concerning the Slavic world,
envision the possibility, for universal spirit, of emigration from Europe as a means
of preparing new protagonists of the principle of spirit that was . . . completed
with Hegel. "America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie
before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself-perhaps in a
contest hetween North and South America.' ... But 'what has taken place in the
New World up to the present time is only an echo of the Old Wodd-the expression
of a foreign Life; and as a Land of the Future, it has no interest for us here . ... In
regard to Philosophy ... we have to do with . .. that which ism [Hegel, Philosophie
der Geschichte, ed. Lasson, p. 200 (and 779?)J.lB Karl Liiwith, "L'Achevement
de la philosophie classique pal.' Hegel et sa dissolution chez Marx et
Kierkegaard" [Recherches philosophiques. founded by A. Koyrc, H.-Ch. Pue(h,
A. Spaier, voL 4 (Paris, 1934.-1935), Pl" 246-247] . [aI4a,3]
Auguste Barbier represented the doleful pendant to Saint-Simonian poetry. He
disavows this relationship as little in his works in general as in these closing lines
of his prologue:
If my verse is too raw, its tongue too uncouth,
Look to the brazen century in which it sounds.
Cyn.icism of manners must defile the word,
And a hatred of evil begets hyperbole.
Thus, I can defy the gaze of the prude:
My ungentle verse is true blue at heart.
Auguste Barbier, Patsies (Paris, 1898), p. 4. [aI5,1]
Ganneau publishes ""Waterloo" (Paris: Au Bureau des Puhlications Evadiennes,
184,3) anonymously. The pamphlet is dedicated to the apotheosis of Napoleon­
"'Jesus the Christ-Ahel, Napoleon the Christ-Cain" (p. 8)-and concludes -with the
invoeation of "Eva dian Unity" (p. 15) and the signature: ';